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- Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World
- Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Illustrations
- Plates
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter One Introduction: Small Windows, Wide Views
- Part I The Ancient Near East and Cyprus
- Part II South Asia and the Gulf Region
- Part III Egypt
- Part IV Aegean
- Chapter Eighteen Introductory Remarks, Aegean
- Chapter Nineteen Aegean Bronze Age Seal Stones and Finger Rings: Chronology and Functions
- Chapter Twenty An Aegean Seal in Greek Hands? Thoughts on the Perception of Aegean Seals in the Iron Age
- Chapter Twenty One Cryptic Glyptic: Multivalency in Minoan Glyptic Imagery
- Chapter Twenty Two The Magic and the Mundane: The Function of “Talismanic-Class” Stones in Minoan Crete
- References
- Endnotes
- Index
Chapter Nineteen - Aegean Bronze Age Seal Stones and Finger Rings: Chronology and Functions
from Part IV - Aegean
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 April 2018
- Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World
- Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Illustrations
- Plates
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter One Introduction: Small Windows, Wide Views
- Part I The Ancient Near East and Cyprus
- Part II South Asia and the Gulf Region
- Part III Egypt
- Part IV Aegean
- Chapter Eighteen Introductory Remarks, Aegean
- Chapter Nineteen Aegean Bronze Age Seal Stones and Finger Rings: Chronology and Functions
- Chapter Twenty An Aegean Seal in Greek Hands? Thoughts on the Perception of Aegean Seals in the Iron Age
- Chapter Twenty One Cryptic Glyptic: Multivalency in Minoan Glyptic Imagery
- Chapter Twenty Two The Magic and the Mundane: The Function of “Talismanic-Class” Stones in Minoan Crete
- References
- Endnotes
- Index
Summary
Facilitated by the volumes of the Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel (Berlin 1960–2009), scholars studying Minoan and Mycenaean seal stones and sealings of the Aegean Bronze Age (ca. 2300–1300 BCE) have worked in two major areas: chronology and function. Chronology is now well understood through a process of creating a stylistic typology for seals that can be fixed in time through seals from stratigraphic excavations. Understanding the function of seals relies on a detailed typology of sealings and their role in administration as witnessed by documents written in the three major Aegean scripts, Cretan Pictographic and Linear A and B.
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- Seals and Sealing in the Ancient WorldCase Studies from the Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, and South Asia, pp. 334 - 354Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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